Geohot has not fled to South America, he’s on vacation

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Sometimes reporting the news without all the facts to hand can end up blowing a story all out of proportion and being rather funny for the people or person involved. This is what has happened with the apparent desperate bid of Geohot to escape the grasp of Sony and its evil lawyers.

It has been widely reported in the last few days that George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot has fled to South America rather than face up to the lawsuit started against him by Sony over the PS3 jailbreak solution.

Sony Computer Entertainment America was the one to bring this to everyone’s attention stating in court documents that he removed parts of hard drives before handing them in, but that he also is now in South America and they don’t know why. SCEA also say that this “raises serious questions”.

On finding out about his apparent on-the-run status, Geohot found it rather amusing and posted on his blog. The reason he is in South America is because he is on vacation, a vacation that has been planned for many months and scheduled for Spring break which is happening right now.

Apparently he’s been talking with his lawyer every day, so if SCEA had spoken to him they would have known exactly what was going on. Instead they filed documents with the courts.

I think a lot of people are already questioning Sony’s motives behind this lawsuit and what they actually expect to get from it. But this questioning of his whereabouts seems a bit ridicuous. Why bring this to the attention of the courts without first asking his lawyer why he is in South America? Is it meant to get the courts to react in a panic that he may be trying to escape? Did Sony really think he had fled and that was the only course of action?

As far as we know Geohot is not under any restrictions to do with his travel. He can come and go as he pleases. He also makes it clear in his fearmongering post that he fully intends to fight this “ridiculous lawsuit”.